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MEKONG RIVER CRUISE 7 Days on RV Mekong Prestige II March 11, 2017 - 23 Days MEKONG RIVER CRUISE 7 days on RV Mekong Prestige II March 11, 2017 - 23 Days Fares Per Person: $8,795 double/twin $11,725 single > Please add 0.3% GST. > Main Deck on ship — Fares are quoted above. > Upper Deck — add $200 per person D/T; $270 single Early Bookers: $300 discount on first 6 seats; $150 next 6 > Experience Points: Earn 173 points from this tour. Redeem 173 points if you book by December 7. Includes Transportation to/from Vancouver Airport Driving tour of Hanoi Flight from Vancouver to Siem Reap, Cambodia Hanoi History Museum or Ethnology Museum Current air taxes, fees and fuel surcharges Vietnamese traditional Water Puppet Show 13 nights hotel accommodation and taxes Sampan river trip through rice paddies 7 nights stateroom on board Mekong Prestige II Tam Coc Caves Cruise gratuities and cruise taxes Halong Bay cruise on a traditional junk for one Angkor temples including Angkor Wat day with overnight on board and Tai Chi lesson Tuk tuk ride from hotel to Ta Prohm for sunrise Tour of Ho Chi Minh City with Thien Hau Pagoda, Apsara dance performance FITO Museum and Reunification Palace Boat trip to Kampong Chhnang floating village Dinner cruise on Saigon River on a junk Wat Kampong Leu & Vipassana Dhura Pagodas Ho Chi Minh Cooking School Ox drawn carriage ride Cu Chi Tunnels Silk weaving workshop and visit with students at Flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Shanghai a school in Koh Chong Dinner cruise on Huangpu River Khmer Apsara dancing show Tour of Suzhou with Lingering Garden and silk mill Tour of Phnom Penh including Royal Palace, Cruise on the Grand Canal in Suzhou Silver Pagoda and National Museum Shanghai Museum, Emerald Exhibition Centre Tour of Tan Chau with fishing farm, silk and and Ming Dynasty Yuyuan Garden woven mats workshop, and rickshaw ride Flight from Shanghai to Vancouver Tour of Sa Dec with Marguerite Duras’ home and Group Visa for Vietnam Caodaist Temple Luggage handling at hotels Boat tour to French Gothic Cathedral in Cai Be Gratuities to ship staff, local guides and drivers Flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi and return Knowledgeable Wells Gray tour director Walking tour of Hanoi landmarks 51 meals: 21 breakfasts, 15 lunches, 15 dinners RV MEKONG PRESTIGE II The Mekong Prestige II was built in 2014 and was designed specifically to serve on the Mekong River with a shallow draft of only 1.6 metres. She has 32 staterooms and carries only 64 passengers, so this is a very intimate cruise. The staterooms have an average size of 22 square metres (236 square feet) and are located on Main Deck (included in tour fare quoted) or Upper Deck ($200 per person extra). Sun Deck is the topmost. The ship is 68 metres long and 13 metres wide. The dining room on Upper Deck serves breakfast and lunch buffet style, and dinner with a three course menu. Local and Asian entrees are featured along with international favourites. Beer, wine, soft drinks, coffee and tea are complimentary with lunch and dinner, and a full bar is available where you can purchase other beverages. Facilities include a pool, spa, internet, boutique shop, bubble bath pool, lounge and several bars. Electricity is 220 volts, so a converter and adapter to North American plugs is needed. English and German are the official languages on board, and shore excursions are conducted by an English-speaking guide. Laundry service is offered for a fee. The currency on board is the US dollar. All indoor areas are non- smoking and there is a designated area of the Sun Deck for smoking. Gratuities on board and for local guides throughout the tour are included. Entertainment is offered in the Panorama Lounge and includes dances and singing by local groups, cooking demonstrations, and lectures. Movies are shown here also, or you can choose from a large DVD library for personal viewing in your stateroom. Itinerary Saturday, March 11: of a grand social and administrative metropolis Transportation is provided to Vancouver and we whose other buildings - palaces, public buildings, stay overnight at the Fairmont Hotel in Vancouver and houses - were all built of wood and are long Airport. since decayed and gone. We wake before dawn and take a “tuk-tuk” ride to visit the jungle- Sunday, March 12: Meals: B entwined temple, Ta Prohm, at sunrise. Dawn is After breakfast at the Fairmont, we go downstairs one of the most beautiful and haunting times to and check in at China Eastern Airlines. We cross visit the temples, whose ancient sandstone blocks the International Date Line (losing one day) and are gilded gold by the early morning rays. We go change planes in Shanghai, China. back to the hotel for breakfast then return to ad- mire the rest of Angkor. Starting with the magnifi- Monday, March 13: cent Angkor Wat, the largest Khmer temple and Our flight arrives in Siem Reap, Cambodia, at 10 finest example of Angkorian art and architecture, pm. Our coach and guide meet us and we drive we proceed to Angkor Thom. This royal fortified to Saem Siem Reap Hotel for a three night stay. city was built by King Jayavarman VII who reigned from 1181 to 1201. The city has five impressive Tuesday, March 14: Meals: B gates and a moat 100 metres wide. We enter via This is a day at leisure to relax and do as you wish, the imposing South Gate, topped with the four after the long flight from Vancouver. The hotel serenely smiling faces of Avalokiteshvara. Next, offers a restaurant, lounge, and large salt water we visit Bayon Temple, the Elephant Terrace and pool surrounded by fragrant frangipani trees. The the Terrace of the Leper King. You may also wish National Museum and night market are nearby. to watch the sunset at Pre Rup Temple. After din- ner, we enjoy the spectacular Apsara Dance Wednesday, March 15: Meals: B,L,D Performance. Siem Reap is home to the Temples of Angkor, built from 879 to 1191 AD when the Khmer civilization Thursday, March 16: Meals: B,L,D was at its height. They represent an astonishing It is a short drive from the hotel to the pier at and enduring architectural achievement. From Phnom Krom. Lake Tonlé Sap is a large shallow the great citadel of Angkor, the kings of the lake which seasonally expands to 250 km long Khmer empire ruled over a vast domain that with a depth ranging from one metre to 10 me- reached from what is now southern Vietnam to tres. Welcome aboard RV Mekong Prestige II and Yunan, China, and westward to the Bay of Ben- settle into your stateroom for the week-long voy- gal. The structures we see at Angkor today, more age down the mighty Mekong River. Lunch is than 100 temples in all, are the surviving remains served and we cast off for the afternoon crossing of Tonlé Sap. Note: If the lake is too low, alterna- to a silk workshop. A rickshaw ride through this tive arrangements will be made by coach or fascinating town takes us back to the pier. speed boat to reach the ship. Wednesday, March 22: Meals: B,L,D Friday, March 17: Meals: B,L,D The French writer Marguerite Duras spent parts of We arrive at Kampong Chhnang, downstream her childhood in Sa Dec, a sprawling busy town from the outlet of Lake Tonlé Sap. This is a busy on the Mekong Delta. We see the house that is a rural port town with bustling markets. The life of the small museum for her novel, The Lover. We also entire population is connected to the Tonlé Sap visit a Caodaist Temple and take a stroll through River with local people using the canals which the colourful local market. During the afternoon, criss-cross the town. We go ashore to stroll through we cruise through Vinh Long Province, located in the scenic market and ride on local boats to visit the middle of the Delta region, between the two the authentic floating village. Back on Prestige, branches of the Mekong. In Cai Be, we tour on we have lunch while sailing towards Kampong local boats to see the French Gothic Cathedral. Tralach. We travel by coach to discover the very We walk along the river bank and visit a manufac- charming Vihara of the Wat Kampong Leu Pago- turer of rice paper and coconut sweets. A tradi- da which has beautiful wall paintings and fres- tional music show follows dinner. coes. Then we ride by ox-drawn carriage (and coach) to Oudong which was the capital city of Thursday, March 23: Meals: B,D Cambodia between 1618 and 1866. Erected on a We dock at My Tho and say farewell to Mekong hilltop, there are numerous stupas dating to the Prestige. A transfer is provided to Saigon Airport last Khmer Kings. We see the Vipassana Dhura and we fly to Hanoi, Vietnam’s bustling colonial Pagoda, a place of meditation for Buddhist capital. Hanoi is described as an old-fashioned monks. city in style, but is punctuated by the endless flow of mopeds and commerce. It is a city of peaceful Saturday, March 18: Meals: B,L,D lakes, tree-lined boulevards, and oriental pago- In Koh Chong, we stroll through this silk weaving das. An area called the Old French Quarter has village and visit a local workshop and a pagoda, crumbling houses crammed into narrow alleyways and meet pupils in a primary school. During lunch, that are still named after the goods that were we cruise to Phnom Penh where the Tonlé Sap traded there - Silk Street, Gold Street, even Fried River meets the Mekong River.
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